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Examples of kicking

kicking

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

After each kicking, the robot modifies its trajectory to goal position by obtaining the information of the kicking position of the other two robots.
I conclude that critical discussion leaves the argument very much alive and kicking, and indeed strengthened as it moves into its second decade of life.
Resistance included angry behaviors such as kicking, hitting, or biting the parent, and showing a continual fussiness or inability to be soothed by the parent.
This behaviour comprised sideways movement of the abdomen, kicking and sometimes retraction of the stylets and escape by walking to other parts of the plant.
As one representative of the industry recently stated 'it may be difficult to develop close partnerships if you start out by kicking the door in'.
Sound-producing gestures, including both excitatory gestures such as hitting, stroking, bowing, blowing, singing, kicking, etc., and modifying gestures such as modulations of pitch and timbre.
The kicking times are ordered and form a finite or infinite sequence.
After pushing her down and kicking her brutally, he left his wife and walked on to catch up with the rest of the group.
If you think neoclassical economics deserves a good kicking around, you will enjoy it a lot.
Kicking away the prop would by itself render his structure unstable.
It is alive and kicking in both empirical and religious varieties.
This advice was adopted by parliament in 1977 kicking off a large-scale merger process.
In these experiments, even young children exhibited detailed knowledge about the laws of motion in their throwing and kicking actions.
This is not even kicking a dead horse, but kicking a nonexistent one.
Responsibility for the (easy) kicking of a car cannot therefore be attributed to a car, or to any of its built-in properties.
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